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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:10:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skubxxtq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807141914280.3017@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:22:04 -0700 (PDT)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> So if the version were to be date-based, instead of releasing 2.6.26, 
> maybe we could have 2008.7 instead. Or just increment the major version 
> every decade, the middle version every year, and the minor version every 
> time we make a release. Whatever.

Or you could just do it like emacs or Solaris and simply use a single number.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-15 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-15  2:10 From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-07-15  2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15  2:31   ` Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-07-15  2:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15  3:55       ` david
2008-07-15  5:31         ` Willy Tarreau
2008-07-15  6:40           ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-15  7:23           ` Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-07-15  7:49       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-17 17:25         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-17 19:56           ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-17 20:21             ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-19  8:00               ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-19  8:52                 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-19 20:49                   ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-19 20:56                     ` david
2008-07-19 21:56                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-20  8:34                     ` Rene Herman
2008-07-20 14:53                       ` Stefanos Harhalakis
2008-07-19 19:30                 ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-07-19 21:16                   ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-19 23:10                     ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-07-15  8:29       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-15 12:41       ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-07-15 13:18         ` Alberto Gonzalez
2008-07-15 18:06       ` Charles grey wolf Banas
2008-07-15 20:43       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-16  7:53         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-16  7:57           ` Rene Herman
2008-07-17 22:16         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-15 10:10   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-15 11:31     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-15 15:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 15:27     ` Parag Warudkar
2008-07-15 15:32       ` Alan Cox
2008-07-18  9:02         ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-16 21:11     ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-15 12:38   ` Alan Cox
2008-07-15 14:07   ` Byron Stanoszek
2008-07-16 21:14     ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-17  0:03       ` Alex Chiang
2008-07-17 12:38         ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-17 20:02           ` Alex Chiang
2008-07-15 14:24   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-15 16:36     ` Tobias Brox
2008-07-15 18:04   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-16  4:22     ` Rene Herman
2008-07-16  6:55       ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-16  7:17         ` Rene Herman
2008-07-16  7:30         ` Rene Herman
2008-07-16  9:34       ` Peter T. Breuer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-17 22:05 Alastair Stevens
2008-07-17 22:40 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-18  8:23   ` Peter T. Breuer

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